Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.